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Gerald Duff

Gerald Duff (September 20, 1941 - ) is a novelist and poet whose stories about the South and its denizens will bring a chuckle to even the most icy, steely-eyed, purse-lipped Yankee. He has written two books of poetry, a collection of short stories and seven published novels on subjects ranging from the trials of a Native American basketball star to a biography of Elvis' little-known twin brother Jesse Garon. His work has won the Cohen Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares Magazine and the St. Andrews Prize for Poetry, and has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and an International eBook Award. His collection of short stories, Fire Ants, was named by the Texas Institute of Letters as a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for the best book of fiction published in 2007.

Duff is, however, undoubtedly least known for his penetrating 1972 study William Cobbett and the Politics of Earth, readily available from the Universität Salzburg Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur. Cobbett was, in turn, primarily known for giving unsolicited advice to young people and somehow misplacing Thomas Paine's bones while taking them back to Mother England for interment.

Biography

Born in Beaumont, Texas and raised on the Texas Gulf Coast, Duff has taught literature and writing at Vanderbilt, Kenyon, Johns Hopkins, and St. John’s College, Oxford. His poems and stories have appeared in The Nation, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Southwest Review, Florida Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Bibliography

Fire Ants New South Inc, ISBN 1588382087 (1-58838-208-7)

References

1. Mulhauser, Dana The Secret Life of Gerald Duff Chronicle of Higher Education Feb 15, 2002